Lake Street & Village Road South

Lake Street and Village Road South meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Gravesend Cemetery, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
720 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,240 feet
Avenue U/Van Sicklen St · B3
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lake Street & Village Road South Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 720 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    720 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave X F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. 86 St N
    0.3 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Transitions” (2018) by Andrea Belag at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/Van Sicklen St, 1,240 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/Van Sicklen St B3 · Shelter
    1,240 feet
    B3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & West 2nd Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
44
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Lake Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Lake Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Village Road South

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1700 and 1725.

  1. Gravesend Cemetery Designated landmark
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 cemetery

Schools and child care

  1. Big Apple Academy Elementary School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet
  2. P.S. 095 the Gravesend School
    960 feet
  3. Big Apple Institute Site 2 School
    1,020 feet
Show all 5
  1. Big Apple Institute School
    1,270 feet
  2. Bambi Academy School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    30 feet
  2. Cutinella Triangle
    1,190 feet
  3. Lady Moody Triangle
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lake Street or Village Road South.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.